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Commit aa2bf9bc authored by Sasikantha babu's avatar Sasikantha babu Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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itimer: Schedule silent NULL pointer fixup in setitimer() for removal



setitimer() should return -EFAULT if called with an invalid pointer
for value. The current code excludes a NULL pointer from this rule and
silently uses it to stop the timer. This violates the spec.

Warn about user space apps which rely on that feature and schedule it
for removal.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog, warn message and Doc entry ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarSasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332340854-26053-1-git-send-email-sasikanth.v19@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent f52b69f8
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